John T. Reed’s news blog

Huge clock management mistake by Eagles scoring their last TD when all they needed was a FG after running the clock down. But they survived it..They violated the enough-versus-more principle, which is prominent in my clock-management book. They should have stayed out of the end zone just got into first and goal then taken a knee three times. NE only had one timeout. Each knee takes about :42 off the clock. Stop the clock with :03 then kick the game-winning FG with :03 at the snap. No chance for the Pats to come back..

Regarding banning youth football in California in the editorial page of the East Bay Times for 2/15/18 I coached youth tackle football in San Ramon and Danville for nine seasons, flag football in Lamorinda for one season, and high school football for six seasons at Miramonte, Grenada, and Monte Vista. My three sons played youth and high school football. And I wrote eight books on coaching football—one about flag, one about clock management that is used by NFL and college coaches, one about offense that applies to all levels, one about coaching freshman and junior varsity football, and four books...

Yesterday, I got my annual J.K. Lasser’s Your Income Tax Professional Edition. You should, too. The non-professional version is sold real cheap in places like grocery stores. I paid $55 for this from Target. Amazon wanted more.The difference between the two editions is the Professional Edition is hard cover and has the relevant legal citations. There is no soft cover Professional edition.Please do not tell me your accountant takes care of all that, Mr. Big Shot. It makes me and the readers of my book Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors (over 100,000 sold) wince.The late Leigh Robinson was...

I want to be sure readers understand why I am careful to use the phrase “federal government” when I talk about the inevitable fiscal collapse caused by federal deficit spending. The collapse will almost certainly take the form of hyperinflation—because that lets the politicians blame Wal-Mart and Amazon. The alternatives, higher taxes and/or more failed attempts to sell yet more U.S. bonds, cause the politicians to get blamed. So they will “print” worthless money to pay social security, etc. Will that also bankrupt the American people? Cross off these items on your financial statements Get out your balance sheet (assets...

The projected deficits and current national debt are a dire emergency. They have already severely hurt the national defense. They will cause hyperinflation if not reversed. Republicans waiting for the Democrats The position of the Republican Party is they cannot address the national debt-to-GDP ratio without Democrat support and therefore they will not even mention it until the Democrats indicate they are willing to cut entitlements. Democrats are waiting for the U.S. government to go bankrupt Democrat policy is they will INCREASE entitlements and NEVER cut them. The Democrat policy is suicidal. They literally want the nation to crash because...